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Students call out Westfield schools after Pride flag, BLM sign removed from classrooms

Aug 30, 2021 View Original Article
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    16% Somewhat Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    26% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    16% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Unify Westfield, a group that aims to "bring academic excellence back" to Westfield schools, was formed during the debates about books addressing gender identity, bringing together those who opposed the books.
49% : When he became superintendent in May, Kaiser took over at a district where there had been a debate for months about DEI efforts, specifically related to having books that address gender identity in elementary schools.
37% : In February, then-Hamilton Southeastern superintendent Allen Bourff sent an email to faculty urging them to teach Black Lives Matter as a political issue and not a social issue after receiving complaints about BLM in schools.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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